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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Marine City, Michigan

No cameras reported in and around Marine City — yet. That usually means nobody has checked, not that the roads are clear. Be the one who looks.

On the record · Cameras Removed

Marine City is on the record here. Marine City decided to remove its automatic license plate readers, citing false positive results.

Full record · Source document

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Zero reported ≠ zero cameras

Help put Marine City on the map

The camera map is built by volunteers, one report at a time — and nobody has surveyed Marine City yet. ALPRs look like small gray cameras on poles, often solar-powered, near intersections and shopping centers. Spot one? Reporting takes about a minute.

Live camera map The map around Marine City, Michigan
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Marine City

No new reports near Marine City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Marine City MI PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Marine City MI PD runs 2 cameras of its own.

Marine City in the St. Clair County picture

St. Clair County has 54 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #917 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 160,089 residents and 1,221 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.1% of counties nationally.

Why this page exists

Automated license plate readers are spreading town by town, usually with no public vote — volunteers have already mapped 3,694 across Michigan. Cameras often arrive quietly in towns exactly like Marine City: a council consent-agenda item, then poles by the grocery store. Learn what they look like, check the roads you drive daily, and this page will update as reports come in.

The latest around Marine City

What you can do in Marine City

Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.

Cameras near Marine City

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).